2020
Bioactive Plasma Mitochondrial DNA Is Associated With Disease Progression in Scleroderma‐Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
Ryu C, Walia A, Ortiz V, Perry C, Woo S, Reeves BC, Sun H, Winkler J, Kanyo JE, Wang W, Vukmirovic M, Ristic N, Stratton EA, Meena SR, Minasyan M, Kurbanov D, Liu X, Lam TT, Farina G, Gomez JL, Gulati M, Herzog EL. Bioactive Plasma Mitochondrial DNA Is Associated With Disease Progression in Scleroderma‐Associated Interstitial Lung Disease. Arthritis & Rheumatology 2020, 72: 1905-1915. PMID: 32602227, PMCID: PMC8081728, DOI: 10.1002/art.41418.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCGAS/STING activationExtracellular vesiclesMitochondrial DNAPattern recognition receptorsCyclic GMP-AMP synthase/stimulatorHuman lung fibroblastsSSc-ILD cohortsInterstitial lung diseaseMT-ATP6 geneΑ-SMA expressionI interferonSSc-ILDScleroderma-Associated Interstitial Lung DiseaseSynthetic CpG DNATLR-9Clinical outcomesLung diseaseSTING activationInterleukin-6Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay-based methodProteomic profilesMulticellular originSystemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung diseaseImmune pattern recognition receptorsExtracellular mtDNA
2018
Impaired type I interferon regulation in the blood transcriptome of recurrent asthma exacerbations
Gomez JL, Diaz MP, Nino G, Britto CJ. Impaired type I interferon regulation in the blood transcriptome of recurrent asthma exacerbations. BMC Medical Genomics 2018, 11: 21. PMID: 29486764, PMCID: PMC5830339, DOI: 10.1186/s12920-018-0340-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPeripheral blood mononuclear cellsAsthma exacerbationsInterferon-stimulated genesRespiratory infectionsIL-15Vivo cohortToll-like receptor 2STAT1 responseRecurrent asthma exacerbationsAcute asthma exacerbationPro-inflammatory moleculesType I interferon regulationBlood mononuclear cellsPro-inflammatory signatureTranscriptomic signaturesType I interferonFold changeAdult asthmaAcute phaseMononuclear cellsImmunologic genesExacerbationIndependent cohortReceptor 2I interferon